incurs

Definition of incursnext
present tense third-person singular of incur

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • The ruling closes a financial front in Britain’s asylum fight as Starmer’s government pursues new border controls, while Rwanda acknowledges the decision but highlights a dissent underscoring the case’s legal complexity.
    Mike Corder, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026
  • Overall, Oreo pursues collaboration strategies at both the global and local levels, with Foley citing a Post Malone US-exclusive collaboration and a recent Blackpink Asia-exclusive release.
    Charles Taylor, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Verb
  • Key highlights from the event included Nvidia unveiling new PC processors developed with Microsoft, as the world’s most valuable company by market cap seeks to dominate every layer of the AI market.
    Dylan Butts, CNBC, 3 June 2026
  • As the federal government seeks to impose populism from above, pluralism from above is another real possibility.
    Katy Siegel, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Verb
  • Scorsese is the highest-profile filmmaker to embrace the technology roiling many of his Hollywood peers and potentially representing a paradigm shift in how the film industry accepts its use.
    Corbin Bolies, Variety, 3 June 2026
  • Because California accepts and counts large numbers of mail-in ballots after Election Day, final results were not immediately available.
    Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 3 June 2026
Verb
  • Once someone contracts norovirus, their body sheds billions of tiny, contagious virus particles.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 29 May 2026
  • The cosmos contracts to a minimum size, then expands.
    Paul Sutter, Space.com, 26 May 2026
Verb
  • That last risk is the most dangerous, since an error nobody catches becomes a decision the business acts on.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • The app provides instant feedback and catches pronunciation mistakes.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 26 May 2026
Verb
  • Wembanyama welcomes the pressure.
    Jared Weiss, New York Times, 5 June 2026
  • The project welcomes girls and boys aged 6 and above.
    ABC News, ABC News, 4 June 2026
Verb
  • Interest in the author’s life can curdle into obsession, as in Henry James’s The Aspern Papers, in which the narrator embraces any deception necessary to acquire the letters of a dead poet.
    Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026
  • Galitzine embraces the indignity.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
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“Incurs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incurs. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.

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